Re: [GIT PULL] On-demand device probing

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:27:44PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:43:24PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > It's a bit ironic that you've chosen GPIO as an example there.  The
> > "new" GPIO API (the gpiod_* stuff) only has a fwnode way to get the
> > gpio descriptor.  There's no of_* method.
> 
> Without following all that fwnode discussion:
> gpiod_get et al. should work for you here, doesn't it? It just takes a
> struct device * and I'm happy with it.

What if you don't have a struct device?  I had that problem recently
when modifying the mvebu PCIe code.  The 'struct device' node doesn't
contain the GPIOs, it's the PCIe controller.  Individual ports on the
controller are described in DT as sub-nodes, and the sub-nodes can
have a GPIO for card reset purposes.  These sub-nodes don't have a
struct device.

Right now, I'm having to do this to work around this issue:

        reset_gpio = of_get_named_gpio_flags(child, "reset-gpios", 0, &flags);
        if (reset_gpio == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
                ret = reset_gpio;
                goto err;
        }

        if (gpio_is_valid(reset_gpio)) {
                unsigned long gpio_flags;

                port->reset_name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s-reset",
                                                  port->name);
                if (!port->reset_name) {
                        ret = -ENOMEM;
                        goto err;
                }

                if (flags & OF_GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW) {
                        dev_info(dev, "%s: reset gpio is active low\n",
                                 of_node_full_name(child));
                        gpio_flags = GPIOF_ACTIVE_LOW |
                                     GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW;
                } else {
                        gpio_flags = GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH;
                }

                ret = devm_gpio_request_one(dev, reset_gpio, gpio_flags,
                                            port->reset_name);
                if (ret) {
                        if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
                                goto err;
                        goto skip;
                }

                port->reset_gpio = gpio_to_desc(reset_gpio);
        }

Not nice, is it?  Not nice to have that in lots of drivers either.

However, switching to use any of_* or fwnode_* thing also carries with
it another problem: you can't control the name appearing in the
allocation, so you end up with a bunch of GPIOs requested with a "reset"
name - meaning you lose any identification of which port the GPIO was
bound to.

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